Here are some pictures that I took when I went out and about with my dad as a youngster.
ford4428
Great photos mate.. I remember Air Products yard at Bracknell as it was near Lynasites block plant. Always had a smart fleet of wagons.
Windrush1 Hi - that is at Sindlesham mill - some things never change
Boyze - glad the mixed up identity is solved 
Thanks for the latest pics - great stuff
Steve
hello boyze ,yes les is working at harveys 
i think he is also caretaker at loddon court and collects the rent on a saturday morning
he rang me this morning looking for a tap and dye set as he had broke something 
i have not been up to the farm for a couple of weeks as i have been to busy at work
did you know he has a girlfriend in america now ,he has not long got back from a visit
cheers graham
d4c24a.
Hello Graham, I had heard that Les was working for Harvey… That sounds like cakhanded Les, always breaking things!!! A new girlfreind…!!!
neversweat1.
Steve, Im still waiting for Bob Scott to bring them photos in, but as soon has he does I will get them on here.. Easy mistake to make with Keith Lovegrove as the names aint that far apart... Last I heard Keith was driving an eight wheeler for Hansons…
boyzee you mentioned BOB SCOTT ? , i may have missed this earlier , is that the same bob ex j,w,q, lebus , and last time i saw him was on the dover zeebrugge boat and i think he was on for north american van lines , if it is tell him paul says hi
daf3300
Hello Paul. Yes mate it is the same Bob Scott he was on North American the same time I was. He has worked for me at Terranova for a few years now and he is supposed to be bringing in some photo`s of his old wagons… But you know Bobby!!! When he gets back in the yard I will let him know you said hello…
More Coff Tippers. Thanks to Richard Coff for the photos.
Boyze:
More Coff Tippers. Thanks to Richard Coff for the photos.
Nice line up of Leyland tippers there Boyze, where is the Tern Hill sand co based, there is a Tern Hill in Shropshire. I drove a Bedford KM tipper with the Tern Hill phone number on it for six months, until he painted it out ( the Shropshire one ).
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade.
To be completely honest Dave I dont know. Harry Coff did have ties up north as the concrete batching plant that was put up in the Reading gravel pit had been bought from somebody who had used it on the building of the M62. They also had a tie up with Buxton Limestone as they used to send wagons from Ascot to stay working up there but they were painted red where as the wagons that stayed down here stayed in green. The Buxton Limestone lorries could be reconised only by a Coff Group sticker on the doors and on the front corners of the tipper body. The next time I see Richard Coff I will ask and try and shed a bit more light on it mate.
Boyze.
Hiya lads, I’ve been wondering what the Coff Group was for sometime now, as I’ve only ever known the Buxton Limestone Co lorries you’ve mentioned. The ones below were the ones running from Grin quarry Buxton but I can’t remember them all having the Coff Group logo on. I’ve made an attempt to colour the first one from black and white, but the red should have come out stronger. I was only a kid at the time but my memory of them was that they operated about a dozen rigids from Grin, made up of Albion Reiver’s and Scammell Routeman’s. Plus this one artic, it isn’t that obvious in this photo but it was a twin steer and the only one seen in the area at the time. Their quarry is now turned into a caravan site after closing around the early 80’s.
As you can see from this photo below the wagons from down south seem to have had bigger headboards.
TIPIT.
Great photos mate… The Coff Group was a big outfit around this area and still own the land that the Gravel Pit used to sit on. Harry Coff passed away years ago now and his sons took over the buisness and sold out to a company called Summerleaze around the start of the 1980s. They do property management now and did start a waste business in Australia but I couldnt tell you wheter that is still up and running. I remember seeing the Buxton Limestone wagons in the Workshops at Ascot before they were sent up. The red and black was the colour of the concrete mixers down south and I think the bigger headboards on the tippers down here was because they used to load the as-dug ballast with a dragline!!!
Harry Coffs Southern Artic at the Earls Court Commercial Vehicle Show.
hello
the volvo LFC 28S IN MARK VEALES yard i drove from when she was 9 months old picking up pigs from farms in the south and taking to haverhill 6 days a week ,i was 21 years old having passed my test three days before he let me loose on the road ,some of the places we used to have to get into with them you would not believe ,mark was a hard man to work for but always fair and he paid very well ,with in 2 years he bought me a f12 intercooler and 3 axle trailer to drive what fun ,he always rewarded hard work and gave me abreak for that i say thankyou
ploughmaster65.
You must have taken over when my old man left… I remember the F12 as well they were painted red and cream. I think I have some photos of them when Alan had the Globetrotter and Red Skin had the other one… I may have bumped into you at some point. Mark Veale last i heared had moved down to Devon and Bruce his son took over. He is still at it with a Scania now.
Is this your old F12■■
Red Skins before he got the Globetrotter.
ploughmaster65.
If you have any old photo`s stick on here mate…
hello
red skins trailer i had when new and the f12 i drove was a w reg so red skins f12 must be my replacment
what a joy she was to drive comming up the m40 cutting at 38 mph fully loaded in stead of 21 mph with the f10
have some pictures will sort it out
what does bruce haul now ? as the pig job is not so good
has any one any pictures of joe grays livstock trucks from reading , he always wanted me to work for him
ploughmaster
ploughmaster65.
Be nice to see them photo`s mate. Bruce is still pulling the pigs with a Scania Topline still in cream and red but I know its only him now. I remember Joe Gray with his fleet of brown cattle trucks had a big yard between Arborfield and Eversley and used to own Fleet Hill Farm. His old yard is still there and Colemans Building Supplies are in there now…
Ex Coff Roll on/off… This has had Coff Containers painted out and Summerleazes name put on so it must have been late 70s early 80`s. My Dad drove this Scammell from new.
